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Virtual Diaspora, Postcolonial Literature and Feminism

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This book analyses the resolution of the psychic problem of diasporic existence from a postcolonial feminist perspective, by inscribing and defining the meaning of “virtual diaspora” through the lens of the East/India and the West. It explores the situation that arises when one leaves one’s country and becomes an emigrant/immigrant, which often causes pain both in the departure from one’s motherland and in the adaptation to a new environment. The book employs the theory of Deleuze and Guattari and explores the interstices of real and virtual diaspora and the aftermath of diaspora as a mental journey. Adding a new interpretation of transcendence, taken from the Indian perspective, the book examines the Deleuze’s theory of immanence and transcendence and the two major concepts of “becoming” and “real/virtual.” The book also examines the works of Helene Cixous, J.M. Coetzee, Jhumpa Lahiri, Kunal Basu, and Tagore in light of the concept of virtual diaspora and from a postcolonial feminist angle. It does so by raising the following questions: When one has emigrated to a different country, can one conceive of that existence as real or virtual or both? Do emigrants or diasporic individuals live a life of both real and virtual diaspora? This comes from the idea that both real and virtual diaspora, under different paradigms, may be related to the power struggle and master-slave dialectic that affects all of humanity. A valuable addition to the study of postcolonial literature, the book will also be of interest to researchers in the fields of diaspora studies, postcolonial feminist theory, postcolonial literature, feminist philosophy, interdisciplinary studies, and Asian Studies, in particular South Asian Studies.

Author Biography:

Ashmita Khasnabish, former associate of Harvard University’s Department of Comparative Literature, currently teaches at Lasell University, MA, USA. A scholar of postcolonial literature and feminist theory, she has published Negotiating Capability and Diaspora: A Philosophical Politics (2013), Humanitarian Identity and Political Sublime: Intervention of a Postcolonial Feminist (2009), and Jouissance as Ananda: Indian Philosophy, Feminist Theory and Literature (2003) and edited Postcoloniality, Diaspora and Globalization: What’s Next? (2019).
Release date Australia
December 16th, 2022
Audience
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Illustrations
1 Halftones, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white
Pages
160
ISBN-13
9781032135144
Product ID
35869270

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